We provide advocacy, education and connection for recipients, living donors, donor families, carers and those waiting. Transplant Australia originated as the Australian Transplant Sports Association which was formed in the late 1980’s to provide transplant recipients the opportunity to take part in the World Transplant Games. The driving force behind the Australian Transplant Sports Association were David Cairns and Brian Donovan, both transplant recipients, who, in 1988, organised the first Australian Transplant Games to encourage transplant recipients to take part in sports and demonstrate the wonders of organ transplantation to the community. Another key player in the formative years was Mark Cocks, a transplant recipient himself, who played an integral part in both winning the bid to stage the 1997 World Transplant Games in Sydney. Transplant Australia exists to make the most of life – promoting the life-saving benefits of organ and tissue donation to the Australian public and supporting those most vulnerable through their journey back to the fullness of life. Transplant Australia Social Media Guidelines
Transplant Australia aims to ensure its social media pages, including all affiliated Transplant State and Event pages are safe and supportive places at all times. They aim to bring our community together to celebrate life, thank those who made it happen, and help people on their transplant journey. Transplant Australia welcomes honest, friendly, and open conversation on our social media page and we reserve the right to remove content or discussion posts in line with these guidelines. We reserve the right to delete content that;
• Is deemed offensive, abusive, defamatory, objectionable, spamming, inaccurate, false, misleading, misrepresentative or off-topic from the original post,
• damages or diminishes the reputation of Transplant Australia and/or any of its events or programs,
• causes insult, intimidation or humiliation to Transplant Australia members, the organization, sponsors, staff and volunteers. We do not allow advertising of other businesses, campaigns and/or advocates without prior approval. Please do not share or tag other pages/groups/businesses that are offering the same services as ours and/or do not align to the position of Transplant Australia. We will only allow groups and pages that are run by health or sports professionals or like organisations to be shared following a review to understand the values of those groups or pages. People who are continually detrimental to others’ enjoyment of this page risk being permanently removed. As a National Sporting Organisation with a Disability, recognised by the Australian Sports Commission, and as a DonateLife Partner we are obliged to uphold standards expected of us and our members. While we welcome open discussion about organ donation policy we ask members to consider that public criticism of organ donation policy can undermine public confidence in organ donation and the goals of Transplant Australia, and may be removed from this page at our discretion. TA Members are also bound by the Member Protection Policy and Social Media Policy - https://transplant.org.au/members/
Thank-you all for your support. Let’s be positive and ‘make the most of life’.
